CCAC Spring 2015 Hopefuls

[HotLipsHoulihan]

Hi All!

Just sending out a good luck huzzah to everyone applying for the Spring 2015 cohort at the Community College of Allegheny County.

We can start applying tomorrow and the the deadline is August 15.

I am all done with my pre-reqs and co-reqs, so am excited to get this application process rolling. I am going tomorrow to meet with an advisor to be sure all of my ducks are in a row.

Anyone else out there applying?

[HotLipsHoulihan]

Read this thread from 2014 for more information on books. This person spent under $200 on books where she said classmates spent over $1000: https://allnurses.com/pennsylvania-nursing/ccac-nursing-spring-856077-page3.html

[m2425]

You will utilize the access codes from each book and prep u will be used very often! Make sure if you buy used that the access codes are available.

[HotLipsHoulihan]

Great- Thanks m2425 for the info! Would you mind sharing the entire book title and authors of your books?

There are a lot of different books with "prep u" in the title and I wasnt given additional information. It seems like the person provided the nicknames of the books and not the full titles.

Any help you could provide would be appreciated. I will make sure to get something with codes too. Even buying new from Amazon is cheaper than new from the bookstore.

[chrisr0403]

Great- Thanks m2425 for the info! Would you mind sharing the entire book title and authors of your books?

There are a lot of different books with "prep u" in the title and I wasnt given additional information. It seems like the person provided the nicknames of the books and not the full titles.

Any help you could provide would be appreciated. I will make sure to get something with codes too. Even buying new from Amazon is cheaper than new from the bookstore.

I had registration last night for night classes. We had a book store worker come up and talk to us. She was showing us on the over head projector ccacshop.com website where you can order books online and have them shipped to your home or the book store. The links she was clicking broke down each book that we needed and i beleive she said that one book appears to over 500$ and the way it looks is like it's one single book but that it's not, it's actually like 3 or 4 books in that package. Some books will be used the whole way through and some will only be used for one semester.

[chrisr0403]

Is there anyone else here that was there last night for registration? For the allegheny night class? Or does anyone remember the lady's name that was one of the instructors that helped us register?

[HotLipsHoulihan]

I am trying to avoid buying from the bookstore bc the books there are marked up substantially.

[chrisr0403]

I agree. Nothing like buying a math book for 190$ and using for one semester then them offering you 20$ to buy it back. And most times you can't even resell them or rent back on the campus book rental site or others, because they are custom to CCAC and are missing chapters....

[HotLipsHoulihan]

I am super grateful for alternative textbook places like chegg and Amazon. These places didnt exsist when I got my bachelors a long time ago and I was in a small town. The only place to get books was at the bookstore.

[chrisr0403]

I am super grateful for alternative textbook places like chegg and Amazon. These places didnt exsist when I got my bachelors a long time ago and I was in a small town. The only place to get books was at the bookstore.

You should also try campus book rental.com I always try to shop around too for books. They are usually the cheapest and the shipping is fast and they make it easy to return them.

[HotLipsHoulihan]

Thanks! Haha. What a weird smiley face. I'm leaving it.

[chrisr0403]

Lol.... Yeah it's cute tho

[m2425]

Fundamentals of Nursing: the art and science of nursing care, author is Taylor something. There is a clinical skills book that runs with that book, then there is Health Assessment, author is Jensen, it has a green apple on the cover, there is 2 lab books that go with that book as well, then the ATI package I believe can only be bought at the bookstore, as well as the tote you will need to purchase with nursing supplies, and when I get home I can tell you the rest. Those are the ones I've utilized the most for the first semester.